I’m really enjoying working with typography at the moment and trying out new layouts and ways to explore them.

I chose two books that I loved as a child and have influenced me a lot. “The Brothers Lionheart” and “Mio, my Son” written by the great Astrid Lindgren. Both books are about little boys who are searching for love, peace, freedom. This search I have represented by the arrows, which are directional and also indicate the reading direction/direction of view for the reader. The designs are kept simple and wrap very colorful stories full of adventure and wisdom.

Font in Use: LFT Etica Mono Book via Adobe

PP32 is a 450pp collated volume of 32 typefaces created by Pangram Pangram®. Produced in a limited run of 250, the book tells the story behind all of the Montreal-based type foundry’s typefaces (so far), balancing rigorous detailing with expressive storytelling.

Art Direction by Alice Sherwin and Harry Bennett of Studio Ground Floor, London. Design by Alice Sherwin, Harry Bennett and Emma Judd. Cloth Bound, Swiss Binding, Pantone 021 C, Printed on Maxioffset (140gsm) by die Keure Bruges, Belgium. All great stuff!

Littoral explores the French coastline as a place and as a concept, through multidisciplinary contributions ranging from science and architecture to scholar research. A glossary runs throughout the book at the bottom of each page. It gathers thoughts, ideas, references, and worked as a logbook in the making process. Artist Daniel Pontoreau contributed a print as interruptive artistic intervention.
This diverse content structure is brought together by a simple layout rule: text blocks and gutters always have the same width; It is the variable width of the images that intervene and push all following text columns towards the right edge of the page — like waves washing up the shore.

“BIEN COMMUN” is french for common good and refers in philosophy, economics and political science to what is shared or achieved by all or most members of a given community. Julien Viala collaborated with John Beeson and Edition Taube and used this term as a starting point.

In an almost unlimited photographical essay he explores how art, cultural artifacts and aesthetics occur in public or semipublic spaces. Together with Jonas Beuchert of Edition Taube he developped a concept to print them on paper, mix them and randomly glue them to long, stack-like objects.

This book aims to educate, wake you up and draw attention.
Educate about the importance of biodiversity and how we can protect it. Wake us up from the habits that make us forget about important things like the extinction of species. And draw attention to the species who are unpopular for various reasons and are sometimes threaten to perish in the splendor of nature.
Inspired by Carl von Linné and Ernst Haeckel and with the use of an AI, illustrations became developed. They unite the old, the new and the future. What could happen if we act and protect those precious lives?
The naturalists also inspired the layout and typography in the book, developed into something modern and interesting.

“24 Houses” contains a selection of ink drawings from Jonas von Ostrowski’s series, “Houses” (2015-2020): detailed layouts of imaginary houses, each provided with its respective title.

The “houses” act less like plans for actual houses to be built, and more like expressions of emotional states, spatial equivalents of various sensitivies or as stages for humankind’s predicaments. Ostrowski uses the blueprint as a legible form, similar to a text, through which he explores the narrative potential of the relationships unfolding between walls, doors and windows. Thus, 24 Houses is a collection of spatial short stories, a novel of 24 chapters in blueprint-format.

I MADE THEM RUN AWAY is a multi-layered story weaving together family images, photographs, and texts written by the artist’s mother. It brings together past memories and present feelings to investigate the dynamics of relationships – the need for attention, the expectations that cause disillusionment, insecurity, and judgment. Shifting between the different points of view, Zanin depicts the recurring complicated triangle relationship between she, her mother, and the “man” – not constant, mostly represented as an absence in the work. The book cover creates a connection between object and content – the artist repeated the tear on each book simulating her mother’s gesture on the family photos.

The Theater Regensburg is a Bavarian theatre that offers a diverse range of productions. With a new artistic director and an increased focus on performances to public spaces, the theatre’s corporate design has been refreshed to reflect this new approach. The new design incorporates shapes inspired by the city’s streets and landmarks. These were transformed into circular forms that represent both the people of the city and the ensemble of the theater. The initials “T.R.” are a prominent design element that surrounds the name “Theater Regensburg” and reminds the audience that the theatre is just a frame for the performances that take place inside.

In her photo book “Tierra Sin Agua”, Ana Rodríguez Heinlein examines the multi-layered contexts of the water crisis in Spain. Through images and text, including an essay and observations from a travel diary, she establishes a narrative that juxtaposes various facets of the issue. In the way she pairs images and combines image and text, the author creates a subjective documentary work.

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21 x 28 cm
96 pages, 46 illustrations, texts in Spanish and German
Cover: UV print on grey board
exposed spine

The work of the artist Franziska Reinbothe can be divided into three categories: Works in chiffon, transformations and dough pictures. The artist’s book “zu Bildern kommen” (“to come to pictures”) takes up this categorization and is accordingly divided into three picture sequences as well as a block with exhibition views and an index. Each sequence of images is introduced with a close-up of the works. These are printed on different papers, which refer to the materiality of the respective works.

This book explores the possibilities of layout and typographic emphasis /Schriftauszeichnung/ to convey and intensify emotional information within a belletristic text. It asks whether the appearance of a text can have a similar impact on the written word as facial expressions, gestures, volume etc. have on the spoken. An original dime novel serves as a dummy text on which typographic experiments are conducted. 20 layout parameters, such as type size or line spacing, are selected for the experiments. One by one, each parameter is applied to express one or more emotions. At first they are not very noticeable, but the further the book progresses, the more extreme the layout outbursts become.

A book summarising the history of Graphic Design and presenting the works of the MOME Visual Grammar course. It has two different covers, with a sketchbook designed for it. Open spine, hot foil printing on the spine of the cover.

The artist’s book “Sweethearts” reproduces Anya Triestram’s works from the past 10 years. In addition to texts by Wolfgang Ullrich and Dietmar Jacobsen, the sequence of images is structured with poems by Ann Cotten. Anya Triestram’s works are divided into classical graphics such as pastels, lithographs and letterpress prints and pictures made of glazed tiles. To make this division visible in the book as well, the corresponding works were finished with partial UV varnish throughout the book. The glossy surface makes the tile images stand out from the classic graphics.

Book cover and type design for the Artist’s book of István Kulinyi.
Silver bookbinding canvas with neon orange hot foil printing.

The triple volume of the artist Jens Schubert contains beside an offset catalog part a leporello printed from photopolymer clichés and a three-color original silkscreen leporello with effect colors. The original printing techniques refer to Schubert’s original graphic works. The texts in the relief printing leporello deal with Schubert’s pictorial themes: mythical beings and actions. Optical refraction and the perception of colors by the human eye are the text themes of the silkscreen leporello. All texts and image titles are set in German, English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Chinese.

TRADITIO is an art book created for and exhibited at the Modem, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary.
This art book responds to the memory of books as objects, the printing methods, and the personal life and destiny of books.
2 colours offset printing with gold and black ink
edition of 2 copies
cover: plexiglass box
600 pages

Concept cover series for architecture books

The book commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Center for Digital Art and features a collection of articles written by local and international writers who collaborated with the center over the past decade. It includes visual documentation, articles detailing the center’s history, exhibitions, and more. The book provides insight into the unique practices developed at the CDA, highlighting both their successes and failures. The design incorporates elements from the CDA’s workshops and surrounding neighborhoods, establishing the connection between the center and the local community. A set of Hebrew parallel letters was created to complement the wonderful Lÿno font.

21st Laboratory / Fragments

Cover: open spine, hot foil emboss on canvas
Book: Pantone 727U + Deep Black
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The publication was issued in Hungarian and English, within the framework of the 21st Laboratory project, and was sponsored by the Prime Minister’s Office.

„Vitamorsetten“, the title of the book expresses intertwined the three main contents: „Vita“ as in life, „Amor“ as love, „Mors“ as death. These moments are captured in thoughtful sections „…setten“.
Printed on different papers, transparent paper used for the graphics, drop printed full color pages mark the chapters. The book cover, captal and ribbon bookmark harmonize with each other.
The change of colors corresponds to the sequence of the texts, but also to the transformation of the narrative I, the person speaking. The colors both complement and overcome the black framing. The black takes up the shading of the type, the colors go beyond it and open up further perspectives for the reader.

Divisare Atlas is a design concept for an architecture book. This is a series of books dedicated to the architecture of different countries. Each book is dedicated to a different country and contains a variety of Instagramable houses that can be found throughout the country. The map can be found at the beginning of the book, while additional information such as house plans, architectural plans, etc. can be found at the end.

The book focuses on Umberto Riva, one of the masters of Italian architecture, a designer and a painter. A pupil of Carlo Scarpa, he inherited from him the artistic and artisanal attitude towards design, the taste for open forms and the sensitivity for an operational scale that extends from the detail to the landscape. His work ranges from the design of objects to urban housing projects, private and public buildings, exhibition design and painting. The book is conceived as an anthology of critical essays from out-of-print books. A selection of projects described through new photographs, archive images and drawings from the Riva collection at the CCA in Montreal completes the publication.

Le gobelet de Cristal is an essay by Thierry Chancogne focuses on the philosophical essay of the same name written by Beatrice Warde (1900-1969). She use the metaphor of a crystal goblet to argue that typography should be like a transparent vessel that does not draw attention to itself, but instead allows the content it contains to shine through. She argued that typography should be functional and legible, serving as a vehicle for information rather than an ornamental display of artistic flair. The graphic design follows that path, implementing a precise and rigid layout system. Pushed to the point of dysfunction, showing its limits by emphasising playful footnotes and distorted images.